[ Night falls. The princess has not been back to her treehouse all day.
And despite the lateness of the hour (and the way her stomach grumbles for the dinner she should have eaten hours ago), she cannot bring herself to go home.
Home is with Link. And Link is no longer in Songerein.
Hours pass and still Zelda does not go to her treehouse. She lingers in restaurants and shops until they close, at the Archives until one of the new librarians orders her to leave and rest, and then outside on the Plaza, staring at the reflection of the starry sky in the fountain.
Goddess, how she does not want to go back to an empty house. The thought of being alone is enough to make those daggers plunge into her heart over and over again. She is already destined for an eternity of solitude as the Light Dragon. Why must she suffer loneliness while she is still Zelda?
It is midnight when Zelda arrives at Sheik's house and knocks on the door. No message was sent through the journals to make sure he would be home when she called. In fact, if he has not visited her treehouse, he may not even be aware that she has awoken from her month long coma. It is not because she does not want to see him. It's because she knows that when she sees him, she will fall to pieces. Because he will know by now that Link (Zelda's Link) is gone, returned to a Hyrule where the princess has sacrificed herself and become an undying dragon. Zelda doesn't want to talk about the Light Dragon right now.
But she also doesn't want to be alone.
Thus, here she stands at Sheik's doorway in the middle of the night. ]
for Sheik
And despite the lateness of the hour (and the way her stomach grumbles for the dinner she should have eaten hours ago), she cannot bring herself to go home.
Home is with Link. And Link is no longer in Songerein.
Hours pass and still Zelda does not go to her treehouse. She lingers in restaurants and shops until they close, at the Archives until one of the new librarians orders her to leave and rest, and then outside on the Plaza, staring at the reflection of the starry sky in the fountain.
Goddess, how she does not want to go back to an empty house. The thought of being alone is enough to make those daggers plunge into her heart over and over again. She is already destined for an eternity of solitude as the Light Dragon. Why must she suffer loneliness while she is still Zelda?
It is midnight when Zelda arrives at Sheik's house and knocks on the door. No message was sent through the journals to make sure he would be home when she called. In fact, if he has not visited her treehouse, he may not even be aware that she has awoken from her month long coma. It is not because she does not want to see him. It's because she knows that when she sees him, she will fall to pieces. Because he will know by now that Link (Zelda's Link) is gone, returned to a Hyrule where the princess has sacrificed herself and become an undying dragon. Zelda doesn't want to talk about the Light Dragon right now.
But she also doesn't want to be alone.
Thus, here she stands at Sheik's doorway in the middle of the night. ]